अनुलोम

Learned borrowing from Classical Sanskrit अनुलोम (anuloma).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ə.nʊ.loːm/,

अनुलोम • (anulom) (indeclinable)

1. regular; in order (following an appropriate sequence); successive

   Antonym: प्रतिलोम (pratilom)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “अनुलोम”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 217
• Platts, John T. (1884) “अनुलोम”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 98
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “अनुलोम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 37

Compound of अनु- (ánu-, “along; following”) +‎ लोम (loma, “body hair”), literally “in the direction of hair growth”

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐ.n̪uˈl̪oː.mɐ/

अनुलोम • (anuloma) stem

1. regular; in order (following an appropriate sequence); successive

   Antonym: प्रतिलोम (pratiloma)

2. (by extension) favourable; agreeable
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata 6.114.36:

     तस्य वाक्यस्य निधने प्रादुरासीच्छिवोऽनिलः।
     अनुलोमः सुगन्धी च पृषतैश्च समन्वितः॥

     tasya vākyasya nidhane prādurāsīcchivoʼnilaḥ.
     anulomaḥ sugandhī ca pṛṣataiśca samanvitaḥ.

     When these words died out, Śiva as Wind manifested,
     soothing, bearing fragrance, and full of water droplets.

• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “अनुलोम”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 106
• Monier Williams (1899) “अनुलोम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 38/1.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “anuloma”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.